CIX. 
LACHN/EA GLAUCA, 
Glaucous Lachnea. 
ORDO NATURALIS, 
Thymelaz. Juss. Gen. p. 76. 
tr nanenemmenmnracmna, 
Corolle Tubus longus, basi dilatatus: Limbus 4-fidus, lacinid suprem4 minore: Glandule 8, ore 
tubi laciniis opposite, callose. Filamenta 8, ore tubi inter glandulas inserta, alterna sub intersti- 
tiis laciniarum breviora. Pericarpium carnosum. Stylus lateralis. Stigma capitatum, barbatum. 
Frutices graciles. Folia alterna oppositave, nunc latiuseula. Flores fasciculo denso, terminali, breviter 
pedunculato. Bractece nulle preter folia ultima in quibusdam ampliata. 
L, foliis glaucis, ovato-cuneatis, utrinque levibus, planis, ultimis non majoribus : fasciculis 80-105- 
floris : corollis supra basin albidis. 
L, busifolia. Lam, Illustr. t. 292. f, 1.L. buxifolia. Lam. in Encycl. Bot. tom. 3. p. 373, Gnidia fila- 
mentosa, Linn. Suppl. p. 224. 
Sponte nascentem prope Stellenbosch, legit J. Niven. 
Floret apud nos Maio, Junio. 
A fragrant species, diffusing the odour of the Persian Iris, and I believe first introduced by GEORGE 
Hiszert, Esq. for I saw it at Clapham many years ago. The gardener who then had the care of 
his collection took it for a Borbonia, some of the species of which genus it resembles in habit far 
more than Buus ; but all the plants of this Natural Order may be generally distinguished when 
not in flower, by the toughness of their bark, and even the young cuticle does not readily separate 
tacle, is founded in an error; and he was probably deceived by the tenacity above mentioned, 
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laucous especially on their upper surface, for which reason I suspect that they are resupmated, half 
“iy h or te a4 length from 3 to 4 lines broad, sessile with the base jointed, attenuated at the 
margin and very minutely repand, a ang rg _— vi at eae tome 
iru ; finely dotted, flat, the last near ot larger. F 
Se aa tes hee ie oF ‘ pa . Fascicle very close, from 89 to 150-flowered. 
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iolet, from the slender, from 6 to 8 lines long, inc pecially : 
Limb isa ah x gangs top, 3 lines long, horizontally incurved, divided to the base with the 2 
upper sinusses wider; uppermost division lanceolate; lateral ones larger and somewhat a 
lowest divison largest of all, lanceolate: Glands yellow, semielliptical, obtuse, concave, thinly pu- 
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bescent at the base but shining, finally a Filaments eles spreading, smooth, 
